Paint colors were limited to charcoal ... probably why they didn’t have it from the factory.” New, the ’84 SVO Mustang could do 0-60 in 7.5 seconds and the quarter-mile in the mid-15s ...

Powering the Ford SVO-owned '86 Mustang is a bored and stroked 429 ... Don purposely avoided a Pro Stockstyle hoodscoop and a loud paint scheme; the car wasn't built to attract attention.

(The Mustang SVO's Cd remains about the same as that of the base Mustang, however, at 0.39.) All of this is wrapped in a simple, classy one-tone paint job—your choice of charcoal, black ...

Ford's turbo-four Mustang experiment of the '80s didn't make ... what the outcome might have been had Ford offered the spirited SVO as a convertible instead of just the hatchback.